33444 – Crowd sourced review and certifying service enables healthcare workers to have their PPE donning/doffing techniques collectively observed and reviewed in real time
UCF researchers have developed a system and methods that healthcare workers, firefighters and other first responders can use to ensure that they and colleagues worldwide properly don (put on) or doff (take off) personnel... Read More

33396 – UCF researchers have developed an automated detection system aimed at helping to prevent and reduce the number of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) contracted during medical procedures. The new System for Detecting Sterile Field Events tracks activity during training or an actual medical procedure and identifies actions (such as contact-related events) that violate the sterile field and... Read More

32653 – The current technology for circular electrode contacts on implanted leads for deep brain stimulation (DBS) has a major limitation: the electronic current flow is also a annular outflow from the cathode ring to an adjacent anode ring on the same lead. Although this arrangement works when the electrode contact is centered in the target site, e.g., the subthalamic nucleus (STN), it doesn’t work... Read More